“The intervention of the police ought to have brought you to your senses, but off you went.

"You were, as was later discovered, nearly twice the limit for alcohol and before the police gave up the chase because of the danger with which you were trying to escape them, you were driving at 90mph on wet roads.

"You were most of this time in a 30mph limit. You said yourself in interview you were pushing 100.

"This is not the first time you have driven as you ought not. Your record is appalling."

He jailed him for a year and banned him from the road for four years and until he passes and extended test.